A lightweight approach to semantify saudi open government data

Abstract

In the past couple of years we have witnessed an increased interest among governments around the world to release raw data to their citizens. This interest was augmented by converting the raw data into semantic representation to insure that the data can be shared and reused across applications. In this paper we present our attempt to convert Saudi Open Government Data (OGD) into Resource Description Framework (RDF) format by reusing existing ontologies. The advantage of performing such a process is twofold: (1) contribute to the vision of the semantic web and linked open data initiative and (2) enable data exchange and linking with other semantic resources. © 2013 IEEE.